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Central City, Colorado
Nevadaville was an Irish-American gold-mining town founded in 1859 and rebuilt after an 1861 fire, then slowly abandoned as the ore ran…
Penrose, Colorado
This stage stop was built in 1861 and now stands in ruins. Local telling names its ghost Kathleen Cooper, said to wait on the porch in her…
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Staff at the Pioneers Museum describe unease near what was once a manager's apartment in the building. Local telling holds that he was shot…
Empire, Colorado
This Empire bed and breakfast was built in the late 1800s. Staff and guests attribute its activity to Millie Pratt, the original owner's…
Cañon City, Colorado
The Museum of Colorado Prisons occupies a retired cellhouse at the Colorado Territorial Prison in Cañon City. Visitors and staff describe…
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Rock Ledge Ranch, now a living-history site in Colorado Springs, includes a building that served as a tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1800s.…
Pueblo, Colorado
Staff at the Rosemount Museum describe unexplained noises and small movements throughout the house. Ghost lists add reported sightings of a…
Kiowa County, Colorado
On November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led about 675 U.S. volunteer soldiers of the 1st and 3rd Colorado Cavalry in an attack on a…
Alma, Colorado
Local telling holds that a father and son shot each other in a dispute at this Alma hotel sometime in the 1800s, and that a woman staying…
Estes Park, Colorado
Staff at the Seven Keys Lodge describe Ethel Mace still occupying her old room, seated in a wing-back rocker by the fire, and guests trying…
Silver Cliff, Colorado
Silver Cliff Cemetery has drawn attention since the 1880s for an unexplained light that moves among its graves, first reported by a group…
Platoro, Colorado
The Skyline Lodge was built in 1945 in Platoro, a mining town in the San Juan Mountains founded in the 1880s to supply local gold and…
Berthoud, Colorado
Near Bennett Road south of Carter Lake, local telling holds that an early settler named Bennet was shot and killed there in a land dispute.…
Cañon City, Colorado
The St. Cloud Hotel in Cañon City has operated since the 1800s. Staff and guests describe furniture stacked overnight, lights and…
St. Elmo, Colorado
St. Elmo was founded in 1880 as a silver and gold mining camp in the Sawatch Range, and by the 1890s its population approached 2,000, with…
Estes Park, Colorado
F.O. Stanley, co-inventor of the Stanley Steamer automobile, arrived in Estes Park in 1903 seeking relief from tuberculosis and found…
Denver, Colorado
Security staff at the Colorado State Capitol and several nearby state buildings describe a woman in a long dress seen repeatedly over the…
Denver, Colorado
Built in 1864-66 by John Good as the Tivoli Brewery, Colorado's first brewery and only the second in the nation, the building took its name…
Telluride, Colorado
Tomboy was a gold and silver camp at 11,500 feet in Savage Basin, with a school, store, stables, miners' cabins, and even a YMCA and tennis…
Denver, Colorado
Staff in the Mary Reed Building describe the ghost of Mrs. Dupont still seated in "her" room, the former Dupont Room, a reading room named…
Denver, Colorado
Dunklee Hall, formerly a dormitory at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music at Montview and Quebec, served in part as practice…
Greeley, Colorado
Founded in 1889 as the Colorado State Normal School after Greeley residents raised $11,175 to build its first building, the school was…
Greeley, Colorado
Wilson Hall at the University of Northern Colorado is tied to the same Edith story told of the university's other dormitories — students…
Longmont, Colorado
Students and staff at Longmont's Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, named for the Longmont-born astronaut, describe a presence they call Edison,…